Abstract

R language is the GNU arm of S language, which has taken the computational world by storm in the
last decade. Starting as a compendium of statistical tools, this language has grown up into a canopy
lording over a research analysis environment thereby subsuming many hitherto complicated
manoeuvres onto the realms of syntactical simplicity. As this an exponentially expanding field of
development with ever exploding information downpour, it would be a near impossible task to frame
it onto a short simple foundational discourse. However in the subsequent sections we would try to
view the potential and the extent of practicality we would unravel the hidden features of the software
through a GUI envelop also apart from the regular console and syntax based one. To get its power
more understandable we would visualize its forays into the field of analytics using medium scale
examples from marine fisheries data.